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| | HighBeam Encyclopedia - Pound, Ezra Loomis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | POUND, EZRA LOOMIS [Pound, Ezra Loomis] 1885-1972, American poet, critic, and translator, b. |
 | | An extremely important influence in the shaping of 20th-century poetry, he was one of the most famous and controversial literary figures of the century—praised as a subtle and complex modern poet, dismissed as a naive egotist and pedant, condemned as a traitor and reactionary. |
 | | Pound's major works are Homage to Sextus Propertius (1918), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and the Cantos (1925-60), a brilliant, though sometimes obscure, epic work. |
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